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Quotes About Need

don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ask, or I to give, we could've done away with the blindfold Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Thank God for the blindfold. She
~ Abraham Verghese
There should be a better way to offer something, anything, to people who need it. And yet no transaction is uncomplicated, no relationship is without a power dynamic, and "help" isn't always what we think it is.
~ Ada Limón
making music like resurrection or haunting or just plain need.
~ Ada Limón
This being the condition itself: the relentless need to escape a moment that never ends.
~ Adam Haslett
It would have happened eventually, the revelation of her partialness, that she might need something, that her need could be a burden, but it came so suddenly and so starkly. I forgave her everything I had ever blamed her for and tried to love her more without saying anything.
~ Adam Haslett
wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there
~ Adam Phillips
So there are three consecutive frustrations: the frustration of need, the frustration of fantasized satisfaction not working, and the frustration of satisfaction in the real world being at odds with the wished-for, fantasized satisfaction. Three frustrations, three disturbances, and two disillusionments. It is, what has been called in a different context, a cumulative trauma; the cumulative trauma of desire. And this is when it works.
~ Adam Phillips
known in the North as the "slave power." Slaveowners in the Deep South believed in the need for slavery and in their own benevolence as masters.
~ Adam Rothman
Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
~ Mal Peet
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.
~ Timothy Murphy
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
~ Zadie Smith
We should address the issues for nonprofits and pensions and why they need to invest in these offshore funds.
~ Steve Mnuchin
I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.
~ Michael Sheen
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
~ Eric Brown
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
~ Lance Henriksen
Rather than improving trust, crypto has tried to minimize the need for trust. To create a system that requires no trust. To build a world that will still function even when all trust is eroded.
~ PO BRONSON
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
Kalau kita menang perang, semua kita dapat rumah baik. Tapi sekarang negara lebih butuh uang dari pada kita semua.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
betapa beruntungnya jadi bintang film terkenal! Lawan dan kawan sama-sama membutuhkan.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Kebahagiaan orang jang punja ialah mengamalkan kepunjaannya jang dipandangnja kurang dibutuhkannja kepada orang jang terlalu membutuhinja tapi tak kuasa mempunjainja.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
JEAN I need him like the axe needs the turkey. HARRINGTON Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.
~ Preston Sturges
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
~ Primo Levi
God isn't in need of our prayers.
~ Proverb
Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
~ R.L. LaFevers